Agnès Varda

Born on May 30, 1929, in Ixelles, Belgium.

Died on March 29, 2019, in Paris, France.

A photographer since 1949, she directed her first feature film in 1954, La Pointe Courte, a radical movie. Breaking with the narrative codes of the dominant cinema, she invented cinécriture (cinewriting).

Her most famous films are Cléo from 5 to 7, Happiness, Vagabond.

In 1999, she chose to shoot in digital to get closer to the anonymous people starring in The Gleaners and I. Then came The Beaches of Agnès, a private and professional self-portrait, Faces Places, co-directed with artist JR, and her last film, Varda by Agnès.

In 2003, she created her first video installation at the Venice Biennale, Patatutopia. More than thirty exhibitions followed in France and around the world.

Agnès Varda liked to define herself as “an old filmmaker and a young visual artist.”